GarageBand turns your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch into a collection of Touch Instruments and a full-featured recording studio — so you can make music anywhere you go. Use Multi-Touch gestures to play pianos, organs, guitars, drums, and basses. They sound and play like their counterparts, but let you do things you could never do on a real instrument. Enjoy a range of Smart Instruments that make you sound like a pro — even if you’ve never played a note before. Plug an electric guitar into your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch and play through classic amps and stompbox effects. Gather your friends to play and record like a real band with Jam Session.* Use the built-in microphone or a guitar to record or capture any performance. Then mix up to eight tracks to create a song you can share in email or send directly to Facebook, YouTube and SoundCloud.
Play your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch like a musical instrument
• Play dozens of musical instruments on the innovative Multi-Touch keyboard
• Tap out beats with acoustic and electronic drum kits
• Recreate legendary guitar rigs with 9 amps and 10 stompbox effects
• Record your voice using the built-in microphone, and apply fun sound effects
• Use the Sampler to create an instrument from sounds you record, then play them on a keyboard
Sound like a virtuoso with Smart Instruments
• Conduct an entire string orchestra with just one finger using Smart Strings
• Tap chords to instantly create keyboard grooves with the Smart Keyboard
• Strum chords on acoustic and electric Smart Guitars, or trigger fingerpicking patterns for popular chords
• Groove with a variety of Smart Basses, using upright, electric, and synth sounds
• Create and use custom chords for any Smart Instrument
• Drag drum instruments onto a grid to create your own beats with Smart Drums
Start a Jam Session with your friends
• Use your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch to play or record live over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth with up to three of your friends*
• Tempo, key, time signature, and chords automatically sync to the bandleader
• Jam with any Touch Instrument or live instruments like electric guitar or voice
• Tap Record at any time to capture your band’s best moments
• The bandleader automatically collects everyone's recordings so they can be mixed as a song and shared
Create a song anywhere you go
• Arrange and mix your song with up to eight tracks using Touch Instruments, audio recordings, and loops
• Use the Note Editor to adjust or fine-tune any Touch Instrument recording
•Trim and place musical regions exactly where you want them to play
•Use the Mixer to fine-tune each track’s volume —solo or mute any track or adjust pan, reverb, and echo
•Choose from over 250 professionally prerecorded loops as a backing band to your song
•Combine recordings to free up additional tracks using Track Merge
Share your songs
• Keep your GarageBand songs up to date across all your iOS devices with iCloud*
• Create custom ringtones and alerts for your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch**
• Share your songs directly to Facebook, YouTube, and SoundCloud
• Email songs right from GarageBand (AAC)
• Export your song and add it to the iTunes library on your Mac or PC (AAC or AIFF uncompressed)
• Send a multitrack project to your Mac and open it in GarageBand or Logic Pro to continue refining your song
• Send GarageBand songs directly to iMovie for iOS to add a custom soundtrack for your video
* Jam Session and iCloud are available on iPhone 4 or later, 4th generation iPod touch, and all iPad models.
** Requires iOS 6 or later
